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This attempt to document WDW's early years has benefited greatly
from the assistance of many people.
It started with my parents, who first took me to the Magic Kingdom in October
1971 ... oblivious to a lifelong affliction germinating just
below their culpable noses. Since then, dozens of other family members, friends
and creepy
casual acquaintances have generously
provided information, photos and recordings that made the process much more enlightening than
I could have reasonably expected. Most of them are listed below.
Some requested anonymity and others I may have forgot to mention (an e-mail crash
in 2003 caused the loss of some names).
While I can't say all of these individuals
condone WYW, they did help make it possible.
No one's encouragement,
however, eclipses that of my amazing wife / research
goddess, Amy. She'll never read this, but her support is evident on every page.
The proliferation of online
resources that has occurred since WYW began in 1996
may have
surprised even the most wired-in Disney fans, going from a
handful of sites with
small photos to scads of high-resolution pictures
posted en masse to dozens of blogs, with links to rare
audio and video commonplace and - if that wasn't enough -
torrent files making it painfully easy to download
source-quality park background music and old Disney TV shows at high
speeds.
In much the same way that people once drove to record stores in the hopes
of finding a specific Doctor & The Medics import, Disney collectors
once relied on their personal connections to other collectors and
convention gatherings for old guide books, pictures and music. I had
to create a newsletter, for example, before I had any real success in
locating old photos of If You Had Wings in the early 1990s. The
internet changed everything, and even if some people miss the more
arduous and rewarding nature of "the hunt," my guess is that few resist ready access to
what's on flickr and mousebits on principle.
The only grief this causes me is that giving proper credit for
photos or recordings has become difficult from the standpoint of
verification. In 1992, if someone sent me a picture of a Swan Boat
it was a singular moment, achieved via the postal service, and
I'll pretty much always remember that person's name. Now, with a
spurious electronic discharge of media only two clicks away 24/7,
there's so much crazy shit flying around everywhere that true authorship
can be impossible to prove. Someone e-mailed me a .jpg file of
RCA's Home of Future Living in 2007 and in 2008 I saw the same photo on
another person's photobucket account. If I
use it I'll try to credit the right person, but may never know who
actually took the picture. So if an image on WYW is not attributed
to someone by name, it's
generally because it either came from WDW's own media or because I took
the photo myself. Otherwise I've done my best to cite the origin. Until such time as this site
does something
commercial, which will probably be the 12th of Never, I think that's a fair
approach.
Sometimes people e-mail to see if they can use something from WYW. The answer
is always yes, but I do appreciate having the site mentioned as the
source.
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Paul F.
Anderson
Sonny
Anderson
Harry
Applegate
Dave Barker,
Jr.
Ed Barlow
Buddy Baker
Todd Becker
Reed Bickley
Johnny Blanco
Howard Bowers
Robert Boyd
Russell Brower
Steve Burns
Kira Chamberlain
Brandon Champlin
David
Collier
Matt Comegys
Pat Connor
German Contreras
Bill Cotter
Spencer Cook
Tom Cook
Michael Cozart
Steve Dahlem
Alastair Dallas
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Alice & Marc Davis
Rhodes Davis
Gian DiMauro
Linda & Phil
Dowdy
Marty Dunne
Martha J. Earle
Ed Ellers
Dave Ensign
Donna & Ernest Ensign
Ed Film
Stephen M. Fjellman
Michael Flint
Chris Foxx
Donna Freitag
Jan
Freitag
Laura Harper
Mike Herman
Kyoko Hikami
Jim Hill
"Miami" Mike Hiscano
Dave & Sandy Hooper
Scott Hoover
Suzanne Jones
Bob & Kathleen
Kammerer
Stewart
Kennington
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Michael Kingsley
Jerry
Klatt
David Koenig
Michael
Kotler
John Kunzer
Jimmy
Layle
Janelle & Brian Lee
Hugh & Vernice Lee
James & Dover Lee
Robert & Shari Lee
Brian Lewis
Peter LeZotte
Mike & Beth Lucas
Marc Macuse
Randolph B. Mahoney
Greg Maletic
Dave McCormick
Dave McFee
Christopher Merritt
Cathy Moloney
Jim Moore
Chuck Munson
Kiyomi
Nakamura
Dale Nora
Frank Nora
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Jim Ohrberg
Kathryn Overman
Eric Paddon
Ross Plesset
The Presslers
Holly J. Pluard
Mike Prendergast
Tracy Rhodes
Heather Saines
Greg Scott
Bob Shelley
Dave Smith
Martin Smith
Scott Smith
V. Anton Spraul
David Strebler
Michael Sweeney
Gerald Walker
Larry Warmoth
Debbie Wills
Phil Zeller
Rose Zettler
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